Species Richness Survey: Highlights Every year, the Wildlife Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation, Punjab, conducts waterbirds census exercise in six major and most biodiverse wetlands, which include the Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary, the Ropar Conservation Reserve, the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, the Kanjli Wetland, the Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve and the Ranjit Sagar Conservation Reserve. However, the […]
Category: Important Reports
Democracy Report 2022: Important Points
Democracy Report 2022: Important Points The V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg has come out with their annual democracy report. The study is titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’. The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, […]
State Of India’s Environment Report 2022: CSE
State Of India’s Environment Report 2022: CSE The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), released the State of India’s Environment Report 2022. The report is the annual publication of the Centre for Science and Environment, and Down To Earth (magazine). The report focuses on climate change, migration, health and food systems. It also covers biodiversity, […]
IPCC Report on Climate Hazard
IPCC Report: The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C, and even temporarily exceeding this warming level would mean additional, severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Human-induced climate change, including more […]
International Intellectual Property Index 2022
International Intellectual Property Index 2022: India has improved its overall International Intellectual Property (IIP) score from 38.4% to 38.6%, and the country is ranked 43rd out of 55 countries on the International Intellectual Property Index. International Intellectual Property Index is an annual report compiled by the US Chambers of Commerce. This year (2022) the […]
UNEP Frontiers Report
UNEP Frontiers Report: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released its latest annual Frontiers report. This is the fourth edition of the Frontiers Report, which was first published in 2016 with an alert to the growing risk of zoonotic diseases, four years before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Report identifies and offers […]
World Oil Outlook 2021
World Oil Outlook 2021: The government said that the World Oil Outlook 2021, flagship publication by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC, has projected that the oil demand in India is expected to reach around 11 million barrels per day by 2045 as compared to approximately 4.9 million barrels per day in 2021. […]
Corruption Perception Index 2021
Corruption Perception Index 2021: The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2021 was released by Transparency International. Overall, the CPI shows that control of corruption has stagnated or worsened in 86% of countries over the last decade. The Index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople. […]
District Good Governance Index: Jammu and Kashmir
District Good Governance Index: Union home minister Amit Shah recently launched the District Good Governance Index (DGGI) in Jammu and Kashmir, which is the first Union Territory to have such an index. About the index: Launched for 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. It has been prepared by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public […]
Death By Hunger
Death By Hunger: The Union government informed the Supreme Court (SC) that no starvation death (Death by Hunger) has been reported by any state or Union territory (UT) in recent years. The court is hearing a petition that highlights how starvation deaths continue to eat into the right to life and dignity of social fabric […]
